In my younger days I thought direct democracy was unworkable, but now I realise that might have just been my brain conforming to the bourgeois representative government status quo.

Obviously we easily have the tech to do DD these days, everyone has a smart phone in their pocket, we could do it instantly and on the go. But how you could manage a planned economy that way I’m not sure.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You can have a directly democratic soviet. Vote directly on workplace issues. You can even use consensus for a lot at that scale. Hell, I've seen quaker institutions of a few thousand use consensus.